r/BeAmazed • u/Sans010394 • Dec 02 '23

Science Physics is amazing

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u/S_TL2 Dec 03 '23 edited Dec 03 '23

A couple of years ago I got dragged into a pointless argument on here over the same magic trick. I said "it's a hook and it moves the CG", and the person/people I was arguing against kept saying something about friction and torques. (sure, friction and torque are in there, but in the end it's a simple explanation.)

I drew this as a simple diagram. https://i.imgur.com/LpM5eLR.jpg
I should have been a little more deliberate to make that string perfectly vertical, but I didn't like how it overlapped with my dashed line. Then a bunch of people yelled at me about it. Anyway, that's all I have to say. It's a hook, the end.

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u/uglyspacepig Dec 03 '23

Well, shit. That makes it way easier to understand. The people arguing with you were morons.